Scotland briefly rebrands pedophiles as "minor-attracted persons"
JAZZ SHAW 1:01 PM on December 31, 2022
Police Scotland
Authorities in Scotland can’t seem to stop getting themselves into trouble when it comes to wrestling with issues involving gender and sex offenders. First, they passed the Gender Recognition Reform Act only days before Christmas, making it easier for people to legally “change their gender” for official purposes.
Now, in an end-of-the-year report issued by the head of Police Scotland, they have referred to pedophiles as “minor-attracted persons.” (MAPs) The news was immediately met with protests from child welfare groups as well as gay rights groups.
But Chief Constable Iain Livingstone is defending the language, saying that he was only following a template set by the European Union and that the people who are offended aren’t taking the language in context.
While anyone using this new “MAPs” language in an official capacity should be forced to answer some serious questions, reading through the explanation from Police Scotland, you can kind of sympathize with their position.
The portion of the report where the term shows up makes a specific reference to the European Union’s Horizon Europe Project – Prevention of Child Sexual Exploitation.
That’s the language that the EU used, so Police Scotland simply copied it from there. Also, the program in question does not endorse any sort of pedophilia. It’s actually intended to protect children from pedophiles.
